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Monday, November 14, 2016

The Italy of the Primate of Italy Is a Bit Less Catholic

The Italy of the Primate of Italy Is a Bit Less Catholic

The followers of other religious confessions are on the rise in the
country where the pope resides. But the most numerous are not the
Muslims. They are the Orthodox and Protestants. And there are those who
are turning Buddhist

by Sandro Magister

In addition to being bishop of Rome, Jorge Mario Bergoglio is also
primate of Italy. And in spite of the very small number of pastoral
visits that he makes to Roman parishes and Italian dioceses, the Church
that is in Italy and Italy itself have become his natural habitat.

Not
only that. The social phenomenon that lies closest to Pope Francis’s
heart is undoubtedly that of migration, to such an extent that he has
reserved for himself - and for himself alone - the management of the
office in the curia that deals with it, within the newly constituted
dicastery “for integral human development.”Well then, it is precisely migration that is notably changing the human and religious landscape in Italy.

In
the religious field, the Catholic Church no longer has that uncontested
monopoly which it had for centuries, until a few years ago.

Catholicism
remains by far the dominant religion in Italy. But alongside it are
growing other Christian confessions and other faiths. Not only on
account of immigration, but also, to a lesser extent, through
conversion.

On November 8 the CESNUR, the Center of Studies on
the New Religions directed in Turin by the sociologist Massimo
Introvigne, made public the up-to-date statistics as of this year on the
religious minorities present in Italy, contextualizing them in a very
thorough and detailed presentation:

The
CESNUR has provided two statistical snapshots. The first concerns only
Italian citizens who are regularly registered as such, while the second
extends to all foreigners present in Italy, including an approximate
estimate of illegal immigrants.

Among the more than 55 million
Italian citizens, the members of religious minorities number 1,781,207,
equal to 3.2 percent of the entire population.

The largest
religious minority among Italian citizens is that of the Jehovah’s
Witnesses, with more than 424,000. They are followed by the Muslims,
with 302,000, and Orthodox Christians, with 212,000.

In fourth
place, first among the Protestants, appear the Pentecostalist Assemblies
of God, with about 150,000 faithful, but if to these are added the
Protestants of all the other denominations (Waldensian, Methodist,
Baptist, Adventist, other Pentecostal groups, etc.) their overall number
brings them to the top of the ranking with 450,000 faithful.

In
fifth place the Buddhists, with 157,000 faithful, constitute the segment
in strongest expansion among Italian citizens, not through immigration
but through conversion, especially to the Buddhist movement of Soka
Gakkai with its 80,000 faithful.

Here is the complete picture of the non-Catholics, among those with Italian citizenship:

But if the view is expanded to all foreigners present in Italian territory, including illegal immigrants, the picture changes.

Foreigners
amount to 5,026,000, 8.3 percent of the resident Italian population,
which is over 60 million. Among them there are 908,000 Catholics. If
these are removed from the reckoning, the total of non-Catholic
immigrants is therefore 4,118,000, 6.8 percent of the entire population.

And
among these the numerical primacy does not go to the Muslims - contrary
to widespread opinion - but to Orthodox and Protestant Christians, who
together with the Catholics make up 53.9 percent of foreigners.

The
Muslims come next, with 32 percent, down by two tenths since 2015, and
then come the followers of other religions, also with a significant
portion of agnostics and atheists.

If
the foreigners of Catholic faith are added back in, it emerges that
immigration has brought 2,704,000 new Christians to Italy, many more
than the Muslims.

Professor Introvigne commented:

“There
is not the Islamization that many fear, but rather a certain new
Christianization, because through immigration the percentage of
Christians in Italy is destined to grow, because religious practice is
much higher for Catholics who have come from Africa, Peru, or the
Philippines, compared to those who were born in Italy.”

But this
last indicator also has a flip side for the Catholic Church. The
increased plurality of religions in Italy favors an increase in mixed
unions, with one parent being Catholic and one not, and therefore with a
less sure transmission of the Catholic faith to the children.

While
with both parents being Catholic two children out of three remain
members of the Catholic Church, the same does not happen for children
who have one Catholic parent and the other Protestant.

Among the
children of these mixed couples, 29 percent say they are now Catholic,
38 percent Protestant, and 26 percent with no religious affiliation.

And
analogously, among the children of one Catholic parent and another with
no religious affiliation, 32 percent say they are now Catholic, 20
percent Protestant, and 42 percent with no religious affiliation.

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St. Bernard:

Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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Saint Athanasius

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."